This rainy Monday
started with a class focusing on the design of our own ideal school. To start
with, we dealt with different aspects we should take into account for creating
a school project: human and material resources, discipline issues, coordination,
timetables, class sizes, buildings, salaries, curriculum, assessing… as well as
remembering all the factors that influence education such as: parents, social
background, children’s themselves…
All these
aspects considered, we presented the different projects briefly and voted for
the best one. Besides the reflection on education and more importantly on the
aspects we could improve in our school since they depend on us, such as
coordination; this activity brought us to think about task-based learning. Although at first it could seem a type of methodology
suitable for older students, it could also be used in primary teaching.
At the
second period, we worked on pronunciation with Johanna, focusing on the sounds that
are usually difficult for Spanish people. Reflecting on that, I really think we
should make an effort to pronounce properly, particularly sounds like plosive consonants
which usually are the key for language learners to sound natural and correct.
Finally, at
the last class, Malgosia showed us the possibilities of using projects in the
FL class. She presented different activities related to the book ‘The very hungry
catterpillar’. These activities
involving movement, music, creativity, crafts… could allow us to bring a story
to children’s reality and to attach different children’s multiple intelligences for improving language
learning. We can build a whole project around a book. This could be a way of
developing Task-based Learning.
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